9“ Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. 11 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord. 12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. 13 Share with the Lord’s people who are [...]
Your Calling
“For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or [...]
Dying to Live
In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. (Romans 6:11-12 NIV) I hope everyone is having a blessed day. I realize it has been a month or so since my [...]
Comfort
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our afflictions, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we [...]
Saved By Grace
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk [...]
Stop the Hate and Learn to Forgive!
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, because they do not know what they are doing.” (Luke 23:24 CSB) Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers, 2017), Lk 23:34. The greatest example of forgiveness that we will ever see is found in this one verse. For those that are not familiar with the crucifixion of [...]
Is God Too Far Away?
Hello everyone. Today I would like to pose a question to you all. Have you ever felt like God was just too far away from you or that you were to far away from God? Sometimes we feel like there is a large void between us (humankind) and God (the Divine creator). It is nothing [...]
